#and yes these parallels are killing me

[avaasilva]

ELEANOR and DREA in DO REVENGE (2022) EVE and VILLANELLE in KILLING EVE (2018-2022)

#do revenge #killing eve #dorevengeedit #killingeveedit #wlwedit #villaneve #eleanor x drea #filmedit #we love parallels and unhinged women and toxic dynamics in this house #yes the colors are awful i know #i feel insane this movie made me go insane #myworks

[clownjacket]

Okay my ‘why Kipperlily hates Riz’ theory: She handed out business cards first day, he handed out business cards first day, she’s tiny, he’s tiny, they’re both obviously overeager teacher’s pet type A rogues, they’re like male and female versions of each other and it’s obvious to everyone. What would most high schoolers do, in that situation, seeing another kid so similar to your friend on the first day that they somehow BOTH made business cards to hand out at school? AND they’re going to be taking classes together? You say “Omg, he’s literally the boy version of you, you’re SOULMATES, you’d be perfect together!” And what do you do when your type A tight-ass friend acts embarrassed by that? You tease her about it more obviously. You think it’s just good natured ribbing, and she KNOWS it’s just good natured ribbing, but for some reason she gets unreasonably angry any time she sees Riz after that. Maybe even uncomfortable? But she KNOWS she doesn’t have a crush on him, so why does it bother her so much?

#I need another Riz parallel #It would be so funny if she hated him because she DIDNT have a crush on him #but everyone thinks she does #but Riz gets it #yes I’m still on the ‘Kipperlily is repressed sapphic for Lucy and she’s the mc of a Shakespearean tragedy’ train #but ‘repressed gay’ and ‘repressed ace’ still result in similar feelings when friends make jokes about being into someone you’re NOT #also she can be demiromantic ace #but if she DOES hate Riz and want to kill him because she likes him that would still be a win for me #because that’s LITERALLY GRACE CHASITY’S MOTIVE in Nerdy Prudes Must Die #and WHO was the first one to point out the parallels between them? #on that’s right #me #but lesbian/ace Kipperlily would be a bigger win so I’m rooting for that #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 fantasy high #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #kipperlilly copperkettle #riz gukgak

[shivunin]

Hi, I just wondered what your favourite part of the Fenhawke romance was? Like, a scene/moment that really made you fall more in love with him? I love your writing so much!!

Oh, that is very kind of you to say! 💗I'm glad you enjoy the things I've written. I've really been enjoying writing for this ship, especially the past few months c:

As for your question...

Man, that's tough. I have a hard time picking one thing---I mean, *gestures to all the fic* you know? But I can narrow it down to a couple of scenes/elements:

The fact that a romanced Fenris still calls you "my friend" even after the act 2 romance scene. This is just...the bedrock of their relationship to me. Yes, that night went very poorly (understatement, I know), but at the core they are friends and he trusts Hawke in a way he's likely never had the cause or opportunity to trust someone before. I believe he never stopped loving Hawke, and it was a matter of laying those feelings out and understanding them one at a time. Romantic love not replacing platonic love or eclipsing it, but building or twining together is just... *chef's kiss* that's the good stuff.

The moment during the romance conversation in Act 3 when you can see Fenris go from hoping (painfully hoping!) that there is still some way he and Hawke can be together to actually believing it will happen. There is a shift in his body language that I could watch (and...have) over and over.

The element of choice? This is not going to be coherent, but the fact that he is learning for the first time what it means to have options and preferences, and he spends a lot of time exploring and understanding himself...and after all of that, the thing he keeps coming back to is Hawke. I think it's gorgeous. A song with refrains of pain or fear and choruses of decision and hope. He's loyal to a fault, in many ways, but understanding how much of himself exists to share and then still choosing to share it is just...man. I said this wasn't going to be coherent lol, so there you are. "If there is a future to be had..." like he doubts its existence but he's willing to chance it for Hawke. Man.

But, honestly? I've played DA2 a lot of times and never romanced another character, even though I've played through multiple romance storylines in each of the other games. I can't shake the Fenris romance. Every time I open a new playthrough, I tell myself that this is the time I'm going to romance Isabela, and every time Fenris rips that dude's heart out and I just......alright, yeah. Okay. Here we go again.

#and okay yeah one more thing actually #when he is like 🥺 at hawke after he kills danarius and hawke says he isn't alone #i know people joke about it but it's about the capacity for immense violence and aching tenderness #the parallel of meeting him when he rips some guy's heart out and him being finally free to make a life for himself after the same #it's about the cycles. the repeating story #and now he is truly not hunted anymore and he can make some kind of home #could i pull this into a more coherent analysis? probably yes #but here it is nonetheless #i *do* love him actually. he is just so very himself. unbending and harsh as it is sometimes he is always himself #long post #da2 #fenris #ask response #goodness this wound up longer than i'd expected #thank you for giving me an excuse to ramble anon 💗 #i hate that the tl;dr of it all is just 'fenris being fenris' but. i am a simple woman

[raayllum]

“You know, Angus, last time I was here—wow, it feels like forever ago—it was the night everything changed. The night we found Zym’s egg, right over there! And it was the night I met—”

It was impossible to say her name out loud.

Rayla.

It still hurt. She was still gone, and Callum had no idea if she’d ever come back.

Callum shook his head. He couldn’t think about her. Not now.

—TDP Reflections, Vol. 1, Inheritance 

“I’m okay,” Rayla told her, patting her on the head with a gentle finger. “I’ll be better in a moment. It’s land, it’s got to stay still eventually. Well—it’s an island, I suppose…”

An island is land, said a voice in her head, so playful and cheeky she could almost see his smile.

Rayla winced.

Get it?

She shut the voice out. Rayla would not humor his haunting. Not today. Not now. She had come to Scumport stowed away in the belly of the Wanderer’s Maw chasing a shadow—and that shadow was close. She only had to find it. Rayla got to her feet.

—TDP Reflections, Vol. 2, Chasing Shadows I

#rayllum #rayllum parallels #tdp shorts #caylangst #post ttm #timeskip shenanigans #arc 2 #parallels #tdp spoilers #mine #hello yes this Killed me #tdp #the dragon prince

[oplishin]

i do love the contrast between dean in 2017, throwing the black chair aside because he knows that fundamentally, what happened between him and seth was not about a chair to the back and cannot be fixed by it, vs roman in 2022, who breaks the chair on seth's back and comes back to hit him again when it doesn't fix anything.

#roman of 2022 is so thoroughly changed and warped by his surroundings #and it poisons all of his relationships in ways that are *wonderful* to see #god. everything the black chair symbolizes for the shield. there are so so so many connections and parallels to draw all the time #seth rollins #roman reigns #i love the smile on roman's face after he hits seth the first time. like it's almost perverse in its relief #but then he *has* to hit seth again because it didn't actually do anything. and it doesn't fix anything the second time either #wwe #the shield #jrestling #god i have so many fucking tags just kill me #birds on a wire #insufferable bird of paradise #inexorable red-winged blackbird #yes i am watching this match for a 3rd time

[jewishcissiekj]

Do you guys ever think about how they never stood a chance:) How their stories were doomed from the start:) How their lives were orchestrated and put together by a person who manipulated them all the time:) How their fall was inevitable and planned:) How Asajj was probably some sort of a test on Dooku's and Sidious's parts to see a Jedi fall to the Dark Side:) How they foil each other so well because Asajj had nothing when she fell and Anakin almost had everything:) I do like all the time it's pretty miserable

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Star Wars: Republic #60 | Star Wars: Clone Wars (idk the specific chapters for these) | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Star Wars: Obsession #5 | Star Wars: Episode III -Revenge of the Sith

#daily asajj thought of the day #not a ship!! #i could be the ceo of asajj and anakin parallels if i tried #listen the way they foil each other so well #and the way asajj's character in cw 2003 was created to oppose anakin directly #is so engraved in my mind i get surprised whenever i remember how they stuck her with obi-wan and quinlan in tcw and canon #it doesn't work!!! #yes i know she's obsessed with obi-wan but to me it twistly mirrors anakin's relationship with him #like the care and the attachment for him as a father figure vs. the absolute determination to kill him #it makes sense to me #(twistly is not word tho) #asajj ventress #ventress #anakin skywalker #sw #star wars #darth vader #star wars legends #star wars comics #star wars republic #the pics are just interesting visual parallels i found #anyway #au where they're besties #clone wars 2003 #sw clone wars #attack of the clones #episode ii #episode iii #revenge of the sith #star wars obsession

[twpsyn-who]

OMG I I wgehejej I was writing a post about some soulmate AU and and while writing it just occurred to me-

Both Jean and Marco lost their gear during Trost. They both got in a situation where a Titan was going to kill them while having nothing to protect themselves.

Marco was there to help Jean get hold of a gear and survive. Jean wasn't there for Marco aka why he died.

Omg. I'm not crying you are

#I know is obvious but for some reason it hit harder this time #I actually can't remember whatever or not Annie helped too. I know she and Connie were there cuz yk Marco asked them where's Jean #But yk with the assumption that Annie helped... Like damn man. Annie helped Marco save Jean and she helped Reiner kill Marco #THE PARALELLS MAN #i love parallels #The fact they are both good leaders but in their own unique ways <3 #I think... I think there's no way for them both to stay alive. One of them must die for the other to research his full potential #Yes it goes both ways Marco's wake up call can only be Jean's death sorry no sorry #Anyway something lowkey happier : in a universe were Jean dies in Trost not Marco during the fire when Marco sees Jean in the fire he sees #the moment Jean mocked him over his reason for joining MP. And yk maybe that makes Marco want to prove Jean wrong so he joins SC. Or maybe #He thinks he can no longer join MP not without Jean. Maybe he sees Jean in the smoke and feels guilty for not being there to help him #Ok but Eren probably has such a hard time trying to decide who to keep alive between the two man (everything would've worked out with #either of them) he truly wanted Marco to survive Trost but damn who would've looked over Mikasa yk. It truly hurt him #Gosh is 4 am I am TIRED don't mind me #aot #Aot JeanMarco #aot jean #aot marco #jeanmarco #jean kirstein #jean kirschstein #marco bodt #marco bott

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

late Carlo and Moretti (during vinci-moretti war) are like Luca and Clemente to me. Moretti will never raise his hand on Carlo but! will he drive him into guilt in ways that are not direct? insult him in passing? convince Carlo that he's doing everything wrong, when in fact it's the opposite? of course such a painful kick to Carlo's ego, it's unfair, he doesn't deserve it. and it's not a father-son relationship, it's a professional relationship and he can't say anything back & defense himself in any way maybe Moretti's more favorable to Eddie in this period because he's more blindly loyal and Carlo feels he's about to explode

#^ i wrote it before that hounds thing but its about all this anger was once love etc #carlo who is a capo who has done so many terrible things for this place watching how eddie gets bonus points for blind loyalty: 😐 #and it's not even that he's a capo it's that carlo says the right things but moretti dismisses him every time #also ok😬😬😬my truth! is that eddie really was against killing moretti at first #and when he finally decides to support carlo well. is it just a change of master? (yes) #m2 #moretti family #and! #as far as i understand Moretti's murder took place just a few days before his victory? fucked up thing #i mean. it just makes Carlo an even shitty man. he chose himself over the majority #(i can't think about any war theme on a physical level at this point so. i have only abstract thoughts on this) #but objectively: moretti family may have gained control of the vinci family's territory of influence etc #instead they got a young crazy don. and everyone was alright w it (?!makes me think for what reason) #which is why i think there's been something wrong with Moretti in his last yrs. he looks much older thank frank n leo #for now he's just an old man stubbornly clinging to power to me. but not to say that i worked on his character much #i think he became weaker hypochondriacal and paranoid towards the end. “i saw his hands trembling” carlo bout moretti etc #“akela missed his kill!” and the young wolves tore him apart #ewwwwwwwwwww no Carlo who sees Moretti growing weaker and instinctively his teeth are bared more and more ewww #kill the weak and old so the young can survive😬😬 (fucked up thing is that they aren't animals they would survive w moretti in charge) #spoiled hounds parallel makes things so much complicated tbh. but it feels right

[sleestakkk]

Okay okay part of me has always leaned towards Ivan dying when he has to go up against Till. Because like listennn... Ivan ALWAYS being the one who's looking at Till, while Till is never ever looking back at him just has unbearable affect on my brain. So like I've always imagined him dying with the expectation that FINALLY FINALLYYY Till will truly LOOK at Ivan and really see him for the first time like Ivan has always seen him (Does this mean in a romantic sense? Potentially. Maybe. But most of all just finally seeing how Ivan feels about him and just having THAT realization), but also with the added gut punch that it took Ivan dying for Till to truly realize Ivan's feelings and aooughh. BUT flipping it around also ties into the same ooggily booggily affect that the first option has on my brain. Because having Till die could mean that from beginning to end, after EVERYTHING that has happened, he never looks back at Ivan. The tragedy and pain of that feeling, and you KNOWW that from the very beginning of the round that Ivan would know that if Till dies he'd die never knowing about Ivan's true feelings. Now is this all incoherent rambling that will likely not happen? Yes. But they are like little worms in my brain sooo

#the second option is more iffy #cause we know that ivan is going HAM on round 6 #so would till die never knowing? #i dunno #i lean toward a weak yes #or strong maybe #because in black sorrow #shout out to the person who already talked about this but i'm bringing it up #ivan seems to know that till was only going to hear the end of his performance #but in this round they are literally going against each other #so like till HAS TO pay attention #BUT #on the other hand #with mizi disappearing it's pretty likely that till will be obsessing over that #i just #i don't knoww man #i just can't get over the most recent art of ivan and till #and how it parallels perfectly with other art of them #they are literally going to kill me no joke #also till dying means we'll never know if ivan's feelings are in any way returned #which like... #yes the idea makes my stomach get sad #but like it makes my brain itch in the most perfect way #do i want ivan's love to be doomed? #maybe??? #mann i don't know #maybe they should both just die #it'll be easier for my health #alien stage #alien stage till

[funblogoftricks]

A love song for anyone who tries

So there's a lot of posts about Zerxus being a damn fool, and that's fine. Some are mournful, some incredulous, and some don't blame him.

I've also seen a post or two about Zerxus being more clear-eyed than he seems, being clever with his words, negotiating for himself and his son, maaaybe his city, as selfish and ambitious as the wizards around him - and that's also fine.

But I wonder if there's something in between the naivete and the cynicism. Remember that Zerxus is the one with the visions; he has seen the end. He's the one who feels it coming. He's the one who knows what it feels like to stand in the palm of a god, to feel small and useless in the face of certain doom. Zerxus, paladin of the people, First Knight of Avelir. Useless.

What does a good man do in the face of unavoidable, terrible fate?

I think maybe, he just tries.

"I know you took your pain out on us. Don't you forget the kindness we're capable of. We're your children too."

That doesn't sound to me like a total lack of understanding of what Asmodeus is, but it doesn't sound like an arrogant attempt at manipulation, either. It sounds like a desperate plea. What else would you say to a god, if you had once chance to speak to one, before they tried to wipe your people off the world? What words could you justify, knowing one day you would answer for them? That you would have to explain them to your husband, or your son, in the afterlife?

What could you do but try?

The best weapons Zerxus carries are his compassion and his conviction. He is a paladin. A fighter. He will not lay down his arms in the final hour. He cannot. Hopeless though it may seem, he's giving it everything he has, the greatest strength he can muster.

Let it not be said that Zerxus Ilerez didn't try his damndest.

What else is there to do?

#critical role #exu: calamity #exu calamity #exu #zerxus #zerxus ilerez #cr exu #meta #yes this is inspired by hadestown #the parallels are killing me alright #its a sad song / its a sad tale its a tragedy / its a sad song / but we sing it anyway #cause here's the thing / to know how it ends / and still begin to sing it again / as if it might turn out this time #/ I learned that from a friend of mine #orpheus was a poor boy / but he had a gift to give / he could make you see how the world could be / in spite of the way that it is #its a love song / for anyone who tries

[stellarshift]

""desiblr"" is disgusting

#'when the mosque was finally demolished in 1992' yes go on say more...... #'no walk in the park' yeah it just involved killing thousands in communal violence. no biggie though #dont even get me started on the 'islamic invader' bs like. LMAO #cool parallels between hindutva and zionist weirdos btw. #justifying incredible violence with baseless claims of historicity.... some vague idea of 'returning home' fuelled by religious sentiments #😐😐😐😐 #gross #india #my post

[emilyhufflepufftlk]

Season 3 Aethelwold is so Macbeth coded

#the scene in Ragnar’s tent when he’s getting the courage to kill him #reminded me of Macabeth and Duncan #and yes in this parallel Cnut is Lady Macbeth lmao #aethelwold #the last kingdom

[neonsbian]

oh apparently im in the minority for thinking todays episode was pretty great actually

#like did it make me wanna kms at the end? yes #but i think it did everything it was trying to do well #and i think the implications of pisaeng time traveling are going to be really interesting #and i rlly liked that the show actually went ahead and discussed the discrimination gay couples face when getting medical care #ofc this all depends on how it sticks the landing #but while there have been bumps in the road the show hasn't ever completely crashed so im hopeful 👍 #also the triage parallels....killing myself over that #be my favorite #vinnie talks

[raayllum]

me remembering that as of s5 callum following in viren's foosteps is also the only thing, narratively, that encompasses and enables him to likewise break free from aaravos' hold/control

#tag ramble #like viren's positive character development swerve is like #they're not oppositional Anymore they're Just Mirrors at this point #bc any way that callum has of breaking free is just. going to be ANOTHER viren&callum parallel #AAH #it was just red #wouldn't you want to tell it kinder if you could #AND THEY'RE BOTH GONNA SAY YES. kill me #if nearly murdering rayla is the tipping point #the same way viren's was in refusing to kill SS. i will die. i will actually die #s6 speculation #mine #memes

[currentlyonstandbi]

#look this was probably the most experimental post i've ever done considering i had to make the newspaper article from scratch #and to be entirely honest i uuuh im not happy with it lmao #i should've done an obituary instead of the article but too late ! i have no energy to start again #but whatever .the point is that the article is supposed to allude to alex's death okay so yes obituary would've worked better but too bad #idk i think i just had a massive brain blegh halfway through which sucks because i was thinking about this post all day #but the idea behind the whole concept and the QUOTE in the first place and the stupid article concept #was the idea that nigel wasn't the only one to kill himself at the end of the film #alex did too . just not in the literal sense #alex kills the old version of himself . kills the who he used to be #this did not do that quote or the intention behind the post justice but i'm just gonna dump it here and go #also deep in tags is the best place for me to put the random shit i'm thinking of and i've had the trainyard scene on my mind lately #but i left my thoughts to simmer too long and now it's been reduced into thickness 😞 but anyway #greg may have been too much of a coward to give them the maraclea ending they deserved #but he will never be able to take away the fact that the trainyard scene will always be their version of the myth TO ME and me only probs #okay because that story is supposed to parallel the typical conventions of marriage - the consumation when he lays with the body #and then 9 months later the skull symbolises a birth resulting from their union #that moment at the railway ? where nigel shoots himself with the very gun alex is holding? #that's their consumation babes; their union; their wedding #'pray for me pray for yourself we're one now' may as well be their vows #and what do we get as a result of that union 9 months later? we get jack #jack is the product of these 2 people becoming 1 and just like the skull granted great power to the lord #so too does jack grant power to alex; the power to take control of his life and forge his own path forward #me making this post 🤝 cats : oooooo big stretch #seriously #lowkey glad no one will see this in the tag search lmao #like minds

[buck1eys]

so much of the most compelling bits of ofmd are about abuse and community. like i think we can all agree the best run of episodes is 1x08 to 2x03. most of the major characters are both victims and perpetrators of abusive behaviours depending on shifting power structures and how they move through the world. and so much of the fallout is about how they deal with that as individuals and as a queer community crew.

izzy dying isn't grim because he's uniquely queer, or troubled, or disabled in a cast full of queer and disabled characters. it's grim because it flattens the dynamic of characters (izzy but also ed and stede) who are all reckoning with their abuses of power and how they can renegotiate their spaces within communities. sometimes that means leaving - stede had to leave his wife and that was dealt with well. but i want stories about harm within community that doesn't end with a redemptive death, or running away to start an inn.

#not gonna tag this #but like #why do all this community work just to kill him #feel like ed also deserved a better reckoning w community aspects #like the stuff with fang was sooo good #and then what #also like yes i know what i want to happen in a story is not the same as being entitled to it #ofmd hasn't wronged me #but i am disappointed #also yes the kylo ren parallels aren't wrong #but i think there are genuine reasons to feel disappointed by izzys death and compelled by his character #which honour the harm he has committed and also the outsized implications of that harm and how it is upheld and excused in a white #supremacist society